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Who cares if every detail about the new iPhone X was leaked ahead of time? Long ago, Steve Jobs injected enough showmanship and stagecraft into events like today’s — held in a new theater in Cupertino bearing his name — that even the mental ticking off one anticipated box after another still holds a residual power. Would Apple confirm the new phone’s edge-to-edge glass screen? You bet they did. Would the iPhone X have true facial recognition, letting you unlock the device with your facial features (as opposed to your eyeballs), and create Snapchat-like animated emojis to send to friends?...

Tom Cruise is back in the pilot’s seat. Cruise returns as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in the new Top Gun: Maverick trailer and he has a new generation of pilots to teach. That class of recruits include Miles Teller’s Lt. Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw, the son of Maverick’s deceased best friend “Goose” from the original Top Gun. ‘Top Gun 2’: The Moviegoers Guide to ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Read article The new film picks up a couple decades after the first film, with Maverick still working as a flight instructor and putting off a promotion, as it would keep him grounded and out of the skies....

Summer has officially been here for a couple of weeks now, and with it comes the summer heat waves. Over the past few weeks, the southwestern United States saw temperatures soar so high street signs melted and airplanes had to be grounded. The Northern Sierra saw a heat wave so strong it contributed 12 billion gallons of snowpack runoff to Lake Tahoe in just over a week. If all that heat has you feeling like it’s time to get away to somewhere a tad cooler, we’ve assembled a list of four destinations you can head off to this summer to escape the heat and chill out....

Product Recommendations by Matt Leontis. America spends about $3 billion a year on “bad” lighting. It shines down on our grocery stores, our city streets and our back porches, but it also expands upward and outward, brightening up a once-dark night sky. The cheaper this lighting gets, the more of it people use—and that’s how we’ve arrived at a pretty damning side effect of all this light pollution: We can’t see the stars anymore....

K2 is a beast of a mountain, hence its nickname the “Savage Mountain.” It may not be as tall as Everest, but it’s a more difficult and technical climb to its 28,251-foot summit. “With or without oxygen, it has such a low success rate and high fatality rate,” says climber Adrian Ballinger, the Tahoe-based founder of AlpenGlow Expeditions. But on July 24 after a successful K2 summit, Ballinger became the fourth American to climb K2 and Everest without supplemental oxygen....

After a number of wearables brands debuted their new products for the holiday season, it was only a matter of time until Apple made its move. The Apple Watch is the most successful smartwatch by a large margin, and with good reason: It combines the Cupertino brand’s iconic style with a number of features for fitness fans, such as heart rate and step tracking. However, a major sticking point of the Apple Watch Series 2 is that it has to be tethered to either a phone or Wi-Fi to properly function....

Interview conducted on Friday, October 6, 2017 By now it feels as if Ben Affleck has been around forever. The Boston native caught fire in 1997 when he won an Oscar for writing Good Will Hunting with Matt Damon. The years that followed featured more triumph (Argo, The Town) and plenty of tribulation (Gigli, J. Lo). In order to view the video, please allow Manage Cookies Now, as he prepares to renew Justice League, it feels as if we know the guy....

The adventure documentary The Weight of Water, about blind athlete Erik Weihenmayer’s quest to paddle, in a solo kayak, the length of the Grand Canyon, premieres November 3 at the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival. Directed by Emmy-winning filmmaker Michael Brown, the film chronicles the three weeks Weihenmayer spent negotiating Class IV rapids on the Colorado River through the Grand alongside a cohort of friends and guides, including blind kayaker Lonnie Bedwall and rockclimber Timmy O’Neill....

Strike missions are some of the best ways to travel. There’s excitement in the spontaneity of a last-minute decision to escape your normal life, knowing that there is limited time and there are only tentative plans, but that the objective just cannot be passed up. We eschew obligations back home and rush away to pursue fleeting opportunities. For California surfers this winter, solid swells were some of those fleeting opportunities. And so when a big northwest swell lined up to hit Northern California in late January, San Diego surfer Pat Millin and photographer Troy Brajkovich weren’t about to miss it....

Nirmal “Nims” Purja might be best known for the now-infamous photo he took on May 22 of a traffic jam of climbers high on Mt. Everest, but more compelling than the snapshot itself is the overlooked story behind the image. After snagging the shot en route to his second successful ascent of Everest, Purja went on to summit 27,940-foot Lhotse and 27,838-foot Makalu, the world’s fourth- and fifth-tallest mountains, all within a 48-hour window....

Guys who want bigger arms—which is to say, most guys—take an annoyingly binary approach. In this view, there’s triceps training, and then there’s biceps training. That’s it. Push and pull, back and forth, tri’s for guys and (biceps) curls for girls. And in a sense, there is some logic in this method. Elbows only hinge one way, and your biceps and triceps are the biggest muscles in your arms. But guys who train biceps and triceps like this inevitably end up with arms that are somewhat, well, two-dimensional....

I get asked this often, especially this time of year, when days get shorter and people spend less time outside. Vitamin D is an important nutrient for your bone health. Furthermore, there’s research to suggest vitamin D supplements could reduce prostate, colon, and skin cancer risk. If you live in places like Alaska or the Northeast, where sun exposure—a source of vitamin D—is appreciably lower, you may benefit from supplements. But too much of it isn’t good, either....

There’s a lot of talk these days about physical fitness. It’s still January and the New Year isn’t too far behind us, so there are still plenty of people keeping up on their resolutions. If you’re still on that train, you are going to want to make the most out of your workout. And with that, you should head on over to Gainful to pick up a personalized protein shake....

When people talk about sun protection, they often focus on skincare, but almost totally ignore hair care. But it turns out that your hair suffers just as much in the sun—it just doesn’t have the same nerve endings to signal the alarm. We Asked an Expert About Home Remedies for Hair Growth and Thickness Read article You might recognize the “symptoms” of sun-damaged hair: “The easiest way to tell is if it’s become dry or brittle after exposure,” says Alan J....

Sure, the excuse “I can’t run, it’ll hurt my knees” has gotten legions of couch potatoes off the hook—but its usefulness may have finally run out. Healthy men and women ages 18 to 35 who ran for 30 minutes didn’t experience soreness and/or swelling in their joints—in fact, running actually reduced inflammation, according to a Brigham Young University study. In other words, running may not only help you feel better in and out of the gym, but also make you less likely to get a joint disease like osteoarthritis....

If you’ve been wanting to learn to mountain bike, you know the barrier to entry is real. In addition to forking over some serious cash for a machine, there are about a zillion micro-decisions to make before you can actually pedal on a trail. And most of those decisions revolve around terms and experiences you know nothing about yet, considering you’ve probably only been out a handful of times, if at all....

Less than a week after Netflix announced a price hike for some of its plans, Hulu announced it’s going in the opposite direction. The streaming service is chopping the subscription price of its base plan, which comes with limited commercials, to $5.99 until January 9, 2018. The price has gone down from $7.99. The hot offer is being made available to both new and returning Hulu subscribers. Those currently using the service will have to continue to use the same price tier to watch all their Wings reruns....

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, 2002: One hundred feet up a rock face and out of hearing distance from his climbing partner, Craig Demartino leans back on the rope and prepares to be lowered down. Instead of feeling the line coming tight as expected, he begins falling — fast. Moments later he’s on the ground, having sustained severe injuries consistent with a 10-story fall. Both of his legs are broken, his right smashed open....

If you want to make a statement and stand out from the pack, get your hands on the HP Spectre Folio PC right now. It’s a convertible laptop that combines stunning design with impressive performance. The Folio looks, feels—and smells—spectacular and wholly unique. It’s ideal for the professional who wants a portable, convertible device that looks as good as it performs. HP What Makes The Spectre Folio Different? It starts with the leather shell....

As a full moon rose over the Andes last August, remote Portillo, Chile, might have been the quietest, loneliest resort on earth—if it weren’t for the club music blasting in the downstairs discoteca. As wind howled in the surrounding peaks, the skiers I’d met in the outdoor Jacuzzi—among them heli-skiing powder hounds from Japan, a trio of Ralph Lauren models, and recruits from the High Mountain School of the Chilean army—shook their base-layered booties to Cardi B....